Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has asked the Centre to ensure that the common entrance exam NEET for MBBS and dental courses is "not forced" on it even in the future as its implementation would "nullify" certain policy initiatives and socio-economic objective of the state.
While thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "speedy promulgation" of an ordinance yesterday, providing exemption from NEET this academic year, she said, "For the time being, it put at rest the mental agony, stress and anxiety of lakhs of students and their parents aspiring for medical admission for the current year in the state quota."
In a letter to Modi yesterday, which was released today, Jayalalithaa said although the ordinance would temporarily address the issue for the current year, Tamil Nadu's "situation is distinct and different from other states."
She recalled that her government had taken a number of steps since 2005 for systematising admission process to medical seats, even abolishing entrance exams by way of a legislation which she said was even upheld by the Court.
"This measure was taken keeping in view the interests of students, particularly from the weaker sections and rural areas, to ensure that a level playing field is created."
"Introduction of NEET would be a direct infringement on the rights of the State and would cause grave injustice to the students of Tamil Nadu who have already been covered by a fair and transparent admission policy laid down by the Government of Tamil Nadu, which has been working well," she said.
Jayalalithaa urged Modi that necessary measures be taken to ensure that Tamil Nadu was permitted to "continue (with) its existing fair and transparent system of admission to medical colleges and dental colleges in the state and not forced to implement the NEET even in the future."
Rural students and those from poorer socio-economic backgrounds will be unable to compete with urban elite students in such Common Entrance Examinations, which were designed to favour the urban elite, she said.
Jayalalithaa said rural students will be put to great disadvantage because they lack the resources to enrol in training institutions and access materials available to urban students, she said, adding, a large number of socially and economically backward meritorious rural students had benefited by the state Government's decision to abolish entrance exam.
Further, for admission to Postgraduate medical courses, Tamil Nadu government gave preference to those who had served in rural areas, with special weightage for those working in hilly and tribal areas, she said.
"The State Government has also successfully obtained and enforced bonds from those completing Postgraduate education in Government Medical Colleges to serve the state government for a minimum period, which has helped us to meet the need for specialist medical manpower in Government Hospitals."
"Introduction of NEET would nullify the implementation of these policy initiatives and socio-economic objectives of the State, as the regulations for a National Test may not have such enabling provisions. The national test is out of tune with the prevailing socio-economic milieu and administrative requirements of Tamil Nadu," she said.
Pawan Kalyan's "Sardaar Gabbbar Singh" has flopped badly although it received more than Rs 50 cr share. The distributors of all areas have lost heavily.
Pawan Kalyan reportedly will give the rights of his current movie to be directed by S J Surya to the same distributors in all areas. It is said that it is Pawan Kalyan's idea that this film should be sold to the same distributors.
Not only that Pawan Kalyan reportedly spoke to all distributors and promised that they would given the prime priority. Hence, no distributor has made any statement against the film despite losing heavily.
This is one reason that Pawan Kalyan is working with his producer friend Sharat Marar again after 'Sardaar Gabbbar Singh'. If this film is produced by another producer, he would sell the movie to his choice of distributors.
S J Surya's movie will commence its regular shoot next month in Pollachi. The film features Shruti Haasan as the main heroine. A Tamil heroine might act as second female lead.
It is a common practice that whenever Super star film actors make a public appearance, the crowds go crazy. When it is the level of Bollywood Baadshah Shahrukh Khan, the situation gets even more worse as the hero has huge popularity all over the world. -
But during his return from London some thing unusual happened as the star hero was completely unrecognized by everyone at the train station in central London. Even though SRK was with his wife, not even a single person paid head and failed to recognize the star.
Generally, this never happens as SRK is hugely popular all over London. SRK was there for his son's graduation along with his wife Gauri Khan. What surprised many is that SRK himself was seen carrying his own luggage to the car. These picture have gone viral and are creating a good buzz in the social media.
Sushmita Sen turned 40 on November 19 last year. Now over six months later, the actress is in a mood to reveal not only her age, but also that age is not just a number, but a measure of time.
Sush has been in a nostalgic mood since it is 22 years since she had won the Miss Universe crown.
The actress took to Instagram to post some sexy snapshots of hers and wrote, “Declaration time #yesssssss I am 40!!!!!!! with absolutely no desire to be a day younger...I’ve earned it... Age is not just a number it’s a measure of time gifted to discover the self and explore this privilege called life. Vanity thrives on denial... beauty grows with acceptance... in fact, it gets hotter believe me (sic).”
Hrudaya Kaleyam introduced Sampoornesh Babu to Telugu screen that has made a name for himself with his spoofs and funny antics.
Later he has featured in few other films in guest characters and also played lead role in Singham 123 that was written and produced by Manchu Vishnu.
Sampoo failed to recreate his Hrudaya Kaleyam magic again as he got repetitive and boring. Now the team that has made Hrudaya Kaleyam is coming up with Kobbari Matta in which Sampoornesh plays not one but three roles.
The first teaser of Kobbari Matta was launched by Sai Dharam Tej. The teaser is claimed to be the longest teaser ever.
In this 157 seconds teaser Sampoornesh appeared in a getup reminiscent of Rajinikanth in Pedarayudu. There is a two minute length monologue by Sampoornesh in this teaser. The dialogue is an attempt to make fun of women and their day to day activities. Although the dialogue was supposed to be funny it turned out to be farcical.
Nothing in the teaser was funny and it was sheer torture to see it till the end. Hope they don’t release a thirty minute trailer for the sake of setting some record.
Adah Sharma hijacked the internet with her ultra hot photo shoot recently and yet again, the hot beauty is flaunting her dangerous curves in hot dance stretches.
Have a glance at this picture of Adah Sharma working out some moves and is looking super sexy. With few side kick roles until the super successful Kshanam, Adah is all set to make some big noise in South soon. For now, just check out the stretches from hot girl!
Along with many others, controversial director Ram Gopal Varma too threw some 'hot' comments on actress turned Assam MLA Angoorlata Deka saying "If MLA can look like this, Achche din aagaye hai. Thank you Angoorlataji, Thank you Modiji. 1st time I love politics". Now the MLA came out condemning those lewd comments.
Angoorlata wanted to use her celebrity status to serve people and do what she can do to better the society around her and she asked the people who are commenting to grow intellectually. She said that people have gone to Mars, but their mindsets have not changed.
She refused to react much on these unexpected sexist comments. She wants to move on with her intentions in becoming a member of legislative assembly and comfortably ignore vulgar objectification.
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's much awaited Sultan trailer has been released just a while ago. The video is imposing with Salman Khan's dominating show as a boxer. Seems like, Sultan will hit hard at box office too.
The scenes of Salman Khan's wrestling in the pit, weight training and finally boxing in the ring are truly a treat to watch. The background music given by Vishal and Shekhar is enchanting.
There also has romance between Salman and Anushka Sharma, who is also seen as a wrestler. Randeep Hooda and Amit Sadh are also seen in the trailer.
Sultan is about a middle aged wrestler who makes a comeback to the wrestling arena looking for redemption. Based on the life of a wrestler, the movie will see Salman portraying the role of Sultan Ali Khan, a wrestler who faces problems both in his professional as well as in his personal life.
Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, Sultan will hit the theatres on Eid, this year
Priyanka Chopra, who is often called India's greatest export since the zero, is coming back to Mumbai for about 40 days tomorrow.
While one would expect Chopra to chill and catch up with her pals for coffee at Bandra's cool haunts, there's not a day to waste for this one.
Chopra will busy herself shooting for several endorsements. Here is where your diarist asks you to sit down please: Chopra has been signed on for 24 advertising campaigns, all of which will be shot in the next month and half.
She is guesstimated to make close to Rs 100 crore in these 40 days. Among the companies who are shelling out the bounty for her are a fruit beverage, a gold jewellery house, a premium airline, a paan masala and a virtual reality portal.
The fruit beverage brand alone is supposedly paying her Rs 6 crore. Did anyone say girls just want to have fun?.
Barack Obama turned out to be the simple man and his acts at times stuns normal people, of course in a positive way. Not many citizens knew about American president's Vietnam tour until he appeared at a noodles center. He ordered special noodles soup at 'Bun Cha' and had it with head cook Anthony Bourdain's company.
The head cook posted the pictures of himself sitting with Obama. He mentioned the president's simplicity captioning 'Low plastic stool, cheap but delicious noodles, cold Hanoi beer' below the picture. Obama sure made the day for Bun Cha owner Nuon Thaileen and revealed that he gave her a $6 check.
It did not take much time for people around to realize that American president is having noodle soup in fastfood center and when he set to return, people flooded there to click pictures of him. -
Pretty damsel Rakul Preet Singh is currently one of the most sought after actresses in Tollywood. Although most of her Telugu films bombed at box office, stars and filmmakers are considering Rakul for their movies.
Rakul Preet Singh who was last seen in this year's biggest blockbuster Sarainodu has signed to play leading lady in producer Bellamkonda Suresh's son Sai Sreenivas's next film. It is heard that, Rakul is paid fancy price to accept this movie. As per a known, Sarainodu director Boyapati Srinivas who will be helming the yet to be titled flick is showing interest to cast Rakul.
Apparently, Bellamkonda Suresh is taking utmost care on his son's career. For the launch pad film Alludu Seenu, he had roped in Samantha to play lead actress, Tamannah to sizzle in a special song and VV Vinayak to direct the movie.
For his second movie Speedunnodu, Tamannah was zeroed into shake her leg in an item number. Although Alludu Seenu was an average grosser, Speedunnodu ended as a disaster.
For Sreenivas's new film, Suresh is leaving no stone unturned to provide first commercial hit for his son. He has signed top-rated technicians and artists for the film. Devi Sri Prasad will score music. -
"What will you do if you wake up one day next to Sunny Leone," maverick director Ram Gopal Varma was asked in an interview as part of a promotional event for his next Bollywood arrival Veerappan.
With puzzling face RGV repeated the question 'wake up next to Sunny Leone...' and gave answer in his style, "I will look around for Daniel (Sunny Leone's husband)... that is about to kick me with bat or something."
As all we know, RGV is known for his straight forward approach, which apparently won admirers and haters in equal proportions. Apparently, the interviewer expected a funny answer from RGV and he might be happy with the fitting reply. Sunny Leone also reacted on RGV's comments saying "Hahahaha funny Sir!!"
Satya 2 was the last Bollywood film made by RGV. Veerappan marks his comeback to Hindi cinema. The director appears so confident about his latest directorial to spin money at box office. He is promoting the movie vigorously since the result is important for him to bag more projects in Bollywood.
Veerappan is heavily based on RGV's Telugu-Kannada bilingual super hit Killing Veerappan, and hence the Hindi version too is raising hopes of a good show.
Sandeep Bharadwaj, Sachiin Joshi, Usha Jadhav and Lisa Ray will be seen in lead roles in Veerappan set to grace the theaters on May 27th. -
Looks like the bad times for overseas distributors will continuing to haunt them this summer. After a decent start to their summer season with Oopiri, the US buyers have been pegged down by a series of high profile disasters such as Sardaar Gabbar Singh and Sarrainodu, which made losses to the tune of more than $1 million each.
And now, Mahesh Babu's Brahmotsavam seems be giving sleepless nights to the overseas buyers as the film is struggling at the ticket windows. With nearly $2.7 millions stake, Brahmotsavam has so far collected close to $1.1 million, leaving slightly more than half the investment yet to be recovered.
Even though Mahesh's overseas stamina is pulling the crowds in decent numbers, the film has to perform exceedingly well to bail out its buyers. With Trivikram's A..Aa set for June 2 release, Brahmotsavam is staring at a stiff competition. On the other hand, US buyers are pinning all their hopes on the next summer biggies such as A..Aa and Kabali.
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Amidst false rumours that Salman Khan is getting married at the end of the year on his birthday on December 27, a close friend of his reveals that Sallu Bhai is actually against the idea of marriage.
Laughing off the marriage-on-birthday rumour, the buddy says that Sallu is wary of marrying at his age. “He says that by the time his kids grow up, he will be very old. We remind him that Shekhar Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt became fathers at 50. But Bhai thinks it’s too late to have children and there is no point in marriage if you don’t want kids.”
However, the friend admits that Salman’s rumoured Romanian girlfriend Iulia Vantur has been flying down frequently to be with the superstar wherever he’s shooting. “She has been seeing a lot of Salman and has been mingling with his family. When Salman’s girlfriend starts to spend time with his family, it means he’s serious about her,” the friend says.
Meanwhile: Iulia Vantur, too, clarified that she is not getting married
Iulia wrote on Instagram, “Dear friends, I didn’t feel the need to react to any rumors... But now I think I should state clearly that I was never married and I am in no hurry to wear my wedding dress. God bless us all!”
Kochi: A 53-year-old defence security official was found dead with gunshot wounds at a naval base here, Navy officials on Monday said.
Defence Security Corps (DSC) jawan Naik Sivadasan K was found dead with gunshot wounds late on Sunday while on duty as armed sentry at naval base Kochi, a Navy spokesman said.
The firing incident, whether accidental, is being ascertained, he said, adding that the case is being investigated by the harbour terminus police station. The deceased, belonging to Thrissur is survived by his wife and two daughters.
"The family has been informed. An inquiry is being ordered by the Navy into the incident," the official said.
